Today, 16 December 2016

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  • 14 1 TODAY TODAYONLINE.COM WE SET YOU THINKING mediacorp FRIDAY, 16 DECEMBER 2016 MCI (P) 026/06/2016
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  • 56 1 Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte with Singapore President Tony Tan Keng Yam at the state dinner at the Istana yesterday. Mr Duterte, who is here on a two-day state visit at the invitation of Dr Tan, said he hopes to renew and reaffirm the friendship and cooperation
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  • 684 1  -  ANGELA TENG angelateng@mediacorp.com.sg WITH AGENCIES SINGAPORE —Most Asian markets slumped yesterday after the United States Federal Reserve raised rates for the first time in a year and signalled a faster pace of tightening next year, with the Straits Times Index
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  • 695 1 AGENCIES WASHINGTON China defended its right yesterday to put “necessary military installations” on artificial islands in the disputed South China Sea, after an American think-tank said Beijing appeared to have deployed weapons such as anti-air-craft and anti-missile systems. In a statement, China’s
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  • hot news
    • 894 2  -  BOTH COUNTRIES SHARE VISION OF PEACE AND PROSPERITY, SAYS PRESIDENT TONY TAN EILEEN NG eileenng@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —President Tony Tan Keng Yam and visiting Filipino President Rodrigo Duterte yesterday lauded the excellent bilateral relations between Singapore and the Philippines that are underpinned by political
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    • 1189 4  -  Firm will not succeed in first overseas foray by competing on price alone they explain KENNETH CHENG kennethcjw@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —Analysts expect the Republic’s fourth telco, Australian firm TPG, to compete aggressively on pricing from the get-go, given the need
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    • 533 4 SINGAPORE Shares in Singapore’s three telcos all tumbled yesterday, a day after Wednesday’s announcement that Australian company TPG has snagged the fourth telco licence. During intraday trading, Singtel slid as much as 1.6 per cent, while M1 and StarHub fell as much
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    • 80 8 Sri Thandavaalam Muneeswaran Alayam Shrine representatives Mr Adaikalam Annadhurai (red shirt) and his brother Mr Adaikalam Thirunaukarasu (in white dhoti) in discussion with officials from the Singapore Land Authority (SLA) yesterday. The SLA has given them until Jan 18 to relocate the shrine, which sits
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    • 537 8  -  ANGELA TENG angelateng@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —Home buyers here will have to cough up more to pay for their mortgages, while companies will find it more difficult to service their debt, said analysts yesterday, after the United States Federal Reserve raised its benchmark
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    • 382 8 AGENCIES SING A PORE —Asian currencies slid against the greenback yesterday, with the Singapore dollar tumbling to a near one-year low after the United States Federal Reserve raised its key interest rate target and projected a faster pace of rate
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    • 466 10 The exercises will continue it added to improve capabilities in safeguarding national interests AGENCIES BEIJING Long-range air force drills recently conducted above the East and South China Seas that rattled Japan and self-ruled Taiwan, are routine and normal military activities, China’s air
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    • 641 12 AGENCIES JAKARTA —Indonesian police early yesterday nabbed a woman believed to have instructed a female would-be suicide bomber to launch a foiled attack on the Presidential Palace, as a senior Indonesian Cabinet Minister declared that the government is not
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    • 567 14  -  BEN HO ben.ho@mediacorp.com.sg WITH AGENCIES SINGAPORE —Indonesia is developing its own unmanned underwater vehicle (UUV) in a bid to enhance its mari- time security, but experts say it faces major challenges in the developmental stage and may not make a big
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  • comment & analysis
    • 1226 16  -  REPUBLIC CAN DO MORE TO SPUR COMMERCE, INNOVATION JAMES CHAN James Chan is founder and executive chairman at Silicon Straits, a technology-focused innovation firm with operations in Singapore, Vietnam and Indonesia. He has been involved in the technology, media and telecommunications industry in public
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    • 1021 19  -  REJECTION OF U.S. VALUES EDWARD WONG Edward Wong is Beijing bureau chief for The New York Times. THE NEW YORK TIMES Donald Trump is not Mr Popular in Beijing lately. But China’s ruling elite seems to be consoling itself with
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    • 853 22  -  HIKE EFFECTS DEPEND ON REGION KARISHMA VASWANI Karishma Vaswani is an Asia business correspondent for BBC World News. If you track business news and have not been hiding under a rock over the last few months, then it should not come as a surprise
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    • 748 24  -  POOR LANGUAGE LITERACY HINDERS COUNTRY’S COMPETITIVENESS SURASAK GLAHAN Surasak Glahan is deputy editor of the opinioneditorial pages at Bangkok Post. BANGKOK POST During a recent trip to the scenic valleys of landlocked Bhutan last week, a young Bhutanese tour guide’s sophisticated and highly
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    • 26 16 How the US rate rise will affect many countries in Asia differently depends very much on which part of Asia you are in. KARISHMA VASWANI 22
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  • voices
    • 336 26  -  FROM GARY TAN KAR QUAN Recent reports paint a picture of the double whammy of weak economic prospects and ongoing layoffs, and more on the horizon (“Private economists lower growth forecast for S’pore”; Dec 15, and “Long-term unemployment rate rises”; Dec
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    • 175 26  -  FROM JEFFREY LAW LEE BENG I am heartened by the report “Cleaners to get higher basic pay, annual bonus” (Dec 13). This must be welcome news to these workers whose cleaning efforts often go unnoticed or unappreciated. The Progressive Wage Model
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    • 510 26  -  FROM CHONG LEE MING Since the tribunal ruling on the South China Sea in July, some misconceptions have been perpetuated, as evidenced by the commentary “China should heed the lessons of Pearl Harbour” (Dec 8) and the responses to it.
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    • 352 28  -  FROM KWAN JIN YAO I refer to the commentary “It is only in giving that we truly receive” (Dec 13). Good volunteerism, I believe, is marked by consistency, sustainability and strong impact. In this vein, the observation that “corporate volunteerism in Singa- pore is
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    • 185 28  -  FROM JASMINE KWOK Senior Director, Membership and Community Partnership Division, for Chief Executive Director, People’s Association We thank Ms Lim Quee Lan for her feedback (“Why no heads-up on new PAssion card?”; Dec 7). The new PAssion Silver Concession
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  • singapore
    • 710 30  -  LAND IT SITS ON NOT ZONED FOR RELIGIOUS USE FARIS MOKHTAR farism@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE After years of talks to find suitable alternative sites for a Hindu shrine operating illegally on state land for the past five years, the Singapore Land
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    • 294 30  -  SIAU MING EN SINGAPORE An enhanced certification and labelling scheme for environmentally friendly pulp and paper products will have more rigorous criteria from next January, the Singapore Environment Council (SEC) said yesterday. Standards will be benchmarked against environmental practices used
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    • 558 32  -  Judge rules that she was not blatantly ignoring traffic rules and so was less culpable KELLY NG kellyng@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE A negligent driver, who was confused by faulty traffic signals and knocked down a motorcyclist, had her jail sentence cut yesterday after
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    • 730 34  -  VALERIE KOH valeriekohsf@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE Growing up, Muhammad Saifudeen Abdul Salim often threw tantrums or stewed in silence over the fact that he was born different. At the age of four, after his parents noticed he had difficulty climbing the stairs,
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  • science
    • 483 40 FINANCIAL TIMES BEIJING Chinese scientists have successfully implanted 3D-printed blood vessels made from stem cells into rhesus monkeys, marking an important step towards printing blood vessels and other organs for human transplants. “It is groundbreaking work that will change the way regenerative medicine
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    • 966 40 THE NEW YORK TIMES NEW YORK Social scientists bear glad tidings for the holiday season. After extensively observing how people respond to gifts, they have advice for shoppers: You do not have to try so hard. You are not obliged to spend hours
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  • china & india
    • 1048 42 COMPANY HE LED HAS BEEN SNARED IN S CHINA SEA DISPUTES BLOOMBERG HONG KONG —President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for top American diplomat comes with Chinese geopolitical entanglements. In his favour is years of dealing with some of the country’s biggest oil
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    • 620 44 BLOOMBERG NEW DELHI —Mr Sandeep Singh Parmar embodies in one man the conundrum facing the most-polluted region in the world. Mr Parmar, 35, who lives in New Delhi, also has a 180-hectare family farm in the northern state of Haryana. After every harvest,
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  • world
    • 750 46 TERRITORIAL ROW AN ISSUE SINCE WW2 AGENCIES NAGATO (JAPAN) Japan and Russia are likely to revive security talks and keep discussing a territorial row that has kept them from signing a peace treaty formally ending World War II, said
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    • 500 46 AGENCIES KUALA LUMPUR The first phase of the Klang Valley Mass Rapid Transit System (MRT) Sungai Buloh-Kajang (SBK) line will start operations today, with Prime Minister Najib Razak announcing that commuters will be able to ride on the trains
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    • 549 48 Current drive kicked off in early June calling for extra hours and working on weekends AFP PYONGYANG North Korea yesterday wrapped up a 200-day mass mobilisation campaign aimed at boosting an economy struggling with upgraded United Nations (UN) sanctions imposed
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    • 266 49 (H Cold Storage The fresh food people OLLY JOLLY Chilly Christmas! DrOetker a iswra <vm anti mm Dazs Haagen [ABEYRip w A Mr Jr Wacaions Party 10 Pack fEBEEB SEEESm AUNT BESSIE'S Yorkshire Pudding 160gU.P. $8.95 each BUY 1 GET 1 CASINO Escargoi with Garlic 12x89g U.P. 2 for $21.90
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  • business
    • 681 50  -  November’s sales were 13.3 per cent higher than the same month last year, however BUT TOTAL SALES FOR 2016 MAY HIT 3-YEAR HIGH LEE YEN NEE leeyennee@med iacorp.com .sg S I N G A P O R E Sales of new private
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    • 194 50 S I N G A P O R E Mapletree Logistics Trust (MLT) announced yesterday that it has acquired four properties in Victoria, Australia, for A$142.2 million (S$151.3 million). The properties have a combined gross floor area of 103,517sqm on a combined land area of
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    • 532 52 AGENCIES KUAL A LUMPUR Australia’s Federal Court has fined ANZ Bank and Macquarie Group A$9 million (S$9.6 million) and A$6 million respectively over “very serious” attempts by their traders to manipulate a key benchmark rate in Malaysia’s foreign exchange markets.
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    • 786 54  -  SOME ATTRIBUTES FOREIGN TENANTS LOOK OUT FOR COMMENTARY BY EUGENE LIM AND SEAHYAOHUI property@ mediacorp.com.sg Eugene Lim is key executive officer and Seah Yao Hui is assistant manager, research at ERA Realty Network. The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS)
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    • 536 54 SINGAPORE —Recent measures by the Chinese, Malaysian and Indonesian governments to stem capital flight from their respective countries could reduce investment demand for commercial properties and high-end residences in Singapore, but the impact on overall property demand here is expected
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    • 598 56 SLOW TO ADOPT AGGRESSIVE SECURITY MEASURES: CRITICS THE NEWYORK TIMES SAN FRANCISCO Yahoo, already reeling from its September disclosure that 500 million user accounts had been hacked in 2014, disclosed on Wednesday that a different attack in 2013 compromised more than one billion
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    • 711 56 BLOOMBERG SINGAPORE —Alibaba Group Holding and Amazon.com are about to clash in South-east Asia. And Singapore-head-quartered Lazada Group, which Alibaba bought a controlling stake this year for US$1 billion (S$1.44 billion), will be right at the heart of that conflict. South-east
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    • 842 64  -  JDT MAY SEND HIM TO PORTUGUESE OR JAPANESE CLUB ON YEAR-LONG LOAN TEO TENG KIAT tengkiat.teo@mediacorp.com.sg SINGAPORE —A long-awaited opportunity to play at a higher level has finally arrived for Hariss Harun and the Singapore star is ready to grab it with both
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    • 269 64 SINGAPORE —The six halls at the Singapore Sports Hub’s OCBC Arena will be buzzing with activity tomorrow when the Sports Hub holds the third edition of its Community Play Day. The event will feature more than 20 sporting stations that will
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    • 690 65 AFP HONG KONG Heavy Chinese investment is reshaping the landscape of world football, but fortunes could be lost as well as made in an environment that remains “a bit Wild West”. Few expect the flow of money to dry up quickly after
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    • 652 65 PHOTO: AP AP BEIJING World Cup-winning coach Luiz Felipe Scolari’s first task in trying to take Guangzhou Evergrande to a third Asian Champions League will be to face a team coached by a 28-year-old woman. The Chinese powerhouses have
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    • 1011 66  -  CHARITY CRITICAL OF COUNTRY’S TREATMENT OF MIGRANT WORKERS COMMENTARY BY SAM WALLACE Sam Wallace is the chief football writer of The Daily Telegraph. THE DAILY TELEGRAPH You could hardly fail to see the footage on Tuesday evening of six-year-old Afghan Murtaza Ahmadi
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    • 217 66 AFP LONDON A telephone hotline dedicated to helping those affected by historic sexual abuse in football has received more than 1,700 calls in three weeks, it was revealed yesterday. The confidential number was set up by a child protection charity and
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    • culture & lifestyle
      • 1165 70 No more Bowie or Prince and 2016’s highest-earning singer didn’t release a single track CARVING NEW SOUNDS THE DAILY TELEGRAPH LONDON —It was a tough year to be a music fan. Every month seemed to bring more bad news. David Bowie, Prince,
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